Sievers' tax lien indicates financial trouble pre-dated murder

A tax lien of more than $32,000 has been filed with the Lee County clerk of courts on the Bonita Springs home where Dr. Teresa Sievers was murdered.

Sievers was discovered bludgeoned to death five months ago, but the apparent financial troubles date back more than two years.

The lien says Mark and Teresa Sievers were beholden to the Internal Revenue Service for unpaid personal income taxes in 2013, well before Teresa Sievers was killed. Two men have since been arrested in connection with the homicide.

It also says Mark Sievers has until the end of 2024 to either pay the money back or contest the lien.

An attorney representing Mark Sievers had no comment on the lien, claiming he'd not yet seen it.

"Mr. Sievers is still grieving the loss of his wife, the circumstances of it," said Lee Hollander. "And he's trying to raise two young girls on his own. The (Lee County) Sheriff's Office interviewed Mr. Sievers for two weeks back when his wife was murdered.

"And that was the last he's heard from them."

Mark Sievers was at the Bonita Springs home Tuesday but refused comment. One of the men connected to Teresa Sievers' death, Curtis Wayne Wright, was arraigned Monday on second-degree murder charges.